#tormenting

The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few. ↗

— Afif Safieh

#east #either #few #many #middle

I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction. ↗

— William Banting

#affliction #alike #am #being #constitutions

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#criticism #hypocrites #may #most #though

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come. ↗

— Baron de Montesquieu

#bored #come #content #fool #generations